At noon on Monday, President Trump took an oath to faithfully execute his office and preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution. The chief executive’s solemn duty in our constitutional framework is, to state the obvious, to execute the laws faithfully. This means, in the absence of a good-faith belief that a law violates the Constitution (in particular, if the Supreme Court has not weighed in on the matter), the president must enforce Congress’s statutes.
Yet, within mere hours of taking this oath, the president patently violated it by illegally granting the Communist Chinese regime and its agents — who are adversaries of the United States, regardless of whether this is a day of the week Trump chooses to see them as such — a reprieve from Congress’s duly enacted TikTok divestiture law (the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, codified at Title 15, U.S. Code, §9901).
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